The national trend over the past several years has seen a rise in the number of medical abortions, with a 2011 Guttmacher poll showing they account for 36 percent of all abortions in the United States, with that number rising.

The numbers in Europe are vastly higher, with medical abortions accounting for 70 percent of abortions in Switzerland, 83 percent in Sweden and 94 percent in Finland.

Generally, both mifepristone (more commonly known as RU-486) and misoprostol are taken in tandem, having a 97-percent effectiveness in inducing abortions. Because RU-486 is strictly regulated and can only be obtained at abortion mills, many women who opt for do-it-yourself abortions will buy misoprostol off the internet (or, in the case of those living near the southern border, make a trip to Mexico, where the drug is easily obtainable). Misoprostol alone can induce abortions, with an effectiveness rate of 80 percent.

So as the number of abortion mills close, the number of do-it-yourself abortions — which don’t need a doctor or a clinic — continue to rise, which means the lives of babies are still being snuffed out — it’s just being done more discreetly and in women’s homes.

Michael Voris talks an in-depth discussion of the true, financial cost of abortion and its effects to the United States. Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that, “The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being’s right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death” (CDF, Donum vitae III; CCC: 2273).

Contraception & the New Dark Age, Part 1-4: Where we are & How we got here by Dr. Martin Brenner click below:

We are used to thinking of the Rockefellers as simply a byword for wealth, power and financial success. Perhaps we might think of them as determined businessmen or see them as great philanthropists. But the truth is far different; the Rockefeller Foundation is actively undermining the Catholic Church, and in the process, attempting to erase man’s natural orientation to the eternal.

Are the environmental movements and groups simply devoted to laudable, correct stewardship of God’s creation, or do they have a more sinister, hidden agenda? Is “global warming” being used as an excuse for something far darker? Is the final goal of the liberal elites behind the push of junk science population control, eugenics and Gaia worship?

This week on Mic’d Up we’ll be tackling the terrible scourge of Contraception on the Church. Michael Hichborn and Rey Flores from American Life League will join us to expose Catholic Relief Services complicity with Organizations who support contraception and to Discuss The Pill Kills Day of Action 2014. Also joining us will be Lynn Mills who will be discussing the continued prayer rally at Providence Park Hospital in the Archdiocese of Detroit because of their complicity in abortion, contraception and sterilization. Following that same thread we’ll break down the announcement from Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron concerning the crisis of parish closings facing Detroit. Also dropping by will be author James Kalb, to discuss the plague of pluralism on the Church’s Hierarchy.